By Carlos Martinez – Feb 10, 2022 The last few months have seen a significant expansion of the Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although this region of the world is not the most obvious fit for an undertaking that was originally modelled on the Silk Road – a network of trade routes linking East Asia with the Middle East, Africa and Europe – the reality […]
Business operators from Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar are now using the Laos-China Railway to import and export goods to and from China and beyond. Over 100,000 tonnes of cross-border goods have been shipped via the railway since it became operational in December, 2021. In early December 2021, Laos inaugurated the Boten-Vientiane railway, a 414-kilometer (km) electrified high-speed railway that runs between the capital Vientiane and the town of Boten […]
Forget the fake Western claims about China’s Belt & Road Initiative: the US controlled World Bank and International Monetary Fund have been bankrupting and enslaving developing nations with crippling debt, “austerity” and financial colonialism for 70 years. While supposedly an “international organisation”, all appointments to the Board of the World Bank World must be approved by the US Congress, and the Bank has been, since its creation, headquartered in Washington […]
A China-led effort, greening of the Belt and Road Initiative involves development projects aligned with the 2030 UNSDG goals that also present climate action-positive investment opportunities. Since it was first proposed in 2013, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has taken on many forms. A clear-eyed strategy to connect Asia with Africa and Europe via land and maritime networks, the BRI’s primary goals are regional integration and stimulating trade and […]
With over 150 countries and international organizations participating in the Belt and Road, the initiative will be built into a more open and innovative one. Compared with nine years ago, when the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first proposed, the current international landscape has greatly changed with both favorable and unfavorable factors popping up for cooperation on the initiative. More and more countries are now supporting and embracing the vision. It […]
Nucleoeléctrica Argentina and China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) have signed an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the development of the Atucha 3 nuclear power plant. World Nuclear News, 2 Feb 2022 reports: “The nuclear power plant, to be sited near Lima, about 100 kilometres north west of Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, will use China’s Hualong One technology – the HPR1000 reactor, which will use enriched uranium as fuel and […]
Argentina has officially joined the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on the 50th anniversary of China-Argentina diplomatic ties, with top leaders from both countries expressing their willingness to further deepen bilateral cooperation as well as cooperation between China and Latin America. Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Argentine President Alberto Fernandez in Beijing on Sunday after Fernandez attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Following […]
In recent years China has increasingly emerged as a champion of “south-south” cooperation as a new model for developing countries to move towards increasing living standards in line with the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In January 2021, China issued a white paper titled China’s International Development Cooperation in the New Era. It emphasized China’s responsibility to show solidarity with the rest of the world by supporting global public […]
We need to be clear on the impacts of colonial wealth transfers on the Global North, not just the Global South, because it was a two way thing. What was taken from the South is something without which the North would not be what it is today – in fact there would not be an industrial Global North at all. In this video, Rania Khalek of BT News interviews renowned […]
Video explainer In this excellent brief presentation for the Friends of Socialist China YouTube channel, Carlos Martinez gives a comprehensive explanation of why the US and its allies’ attempts to push responsibility for the climate crisis onto China are hypocritical and ridiculous, and why cooperation on climate change is essential. China Environment has published many articles providing detailed analyses of the topics touched on by this video. For more on […]
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